Donnet , Sebastien wrote:
> Hi,
>> sorry in advance if it's a stupid (or already well covered) question,
> but today I tried to read a shapefile coming from, I believe, ArcGIS 9.2
> and run out into trouble:
>> ERROR 4: Unable to open Bedrock.shx or Bedrock.SHX.
> FAILURE:
> Unable to open datasource `Bedrock.shp' with the following drivers.
>> instead of an shx I have an sbn and an sbx
>> My version of ogr/gdal: from FWTools226.exe
> (I'm on windows)
>> thanks in advance for any hints.
Sebastien,
OGR cannot currently read shapefiles without a .shx file. The .sbn and
.sbx files are spatial indexes, and not used by GDAL. The .shx file is
basically a "shape id to file offset" index.
Best regards,
--
---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent